16 The Supernovas

Luffy immediately agreed as he was already in the mood for a snack and hurried up ahead while everyone else walked at their own peace.

On the way, discussions started to occur between the two crews, finding the subject of the Florian Triangle monster being a commune occurrence for both sides, Jabra and Usopp even swearing to not go to that place again. As they got inside the bar, a mature lady was there to greed them.

"We are coming in!" Screamed Luffy as he opened the door.

"Come on in... What'll it be?" Said a woman as he was already inside and as they each decided their order, she started a conversation with them.

"Huh, I never expected to see your two groups coming for a drink together, I must be quite drunk!" Said Shakky while looking at the strange sight in a sarcastic manner.

"Eh, do you know about us?" Asked Luffy, quite confuse.

"It's quite hard to not know such famous people like you." Replied her in the same manner.

"Ah, that's right, we are wanted now, I forgot!" Realized Luffy making his crew ashamed of him.

"There have been quite a lot of problematic rookies showing up lately, so much, in fact, that people have started calling the lot of you, that have a bounty over 100.000.000 Berries, Supernovas. By the way, there are currently thirteen of you currently on the island." As she said the number she throws a look to Lucci and his crew making sure that Kaku was not present among them then continued to bring the order for everyone.

"Eh, Supernovas?" Said Nami in wonder.

"Cooollll!!!" Said Luffy, Usopp, Chopper and Jabra.

"Yes, by the way, your captain has the third-highest bounty among them." Replied Shakky.

"THIRD!?" Reacted the Straw Hats, only Robin remaining calm and looking at Lucci who was seating at the table.

Shakky then started to introduce each and every supernova and its bounty who is currently present on the archipelago, even adding Kaku who was missing while just mentioning Blackbeard as some people actually add him in to the mix as well.

"... As for the first two with the highest bounty, they would be Eustass ``Captain`` Kid with a bounty of 315.000.000 Berries his reason for beating you, Luffy, is because he does not mind hurting the bystanders during his fights, I'm personally not a big fan of him, and finally the one with the highest bounty ``The Blood Demon``Rob Lucci with 378.000.000 Berries, his bounty jumped all the way to the first for multiple reasons, but the main ones would be because he betrayed the W. G. which leaded to them being humiliated, that and because they seem to be curious about how he managed to change his Devil Fruit being the main reasons." Said Shakky.

"That being said, if you don't mind me asking, how did the two of you end up working together?" Asked Shakky visibly curious.

"That's not you prob...." Rebuked Jabra but was interrupted by Lucci who answered in his stead.

"We happen to have a commune objective both of our groups wanted to get to, so we decided to team up to have an easier time." Said Lucci as he poured himself some wine.

"Hey, Lucci don't just tell her we don't know her what if she ruins our plans to storm Impel Down!" Said Jabra realizing right after that he slip up.

"You idiot!!" Reacted Nami full of anger.

"What did you say, woman!" Argued Jabra back.

"Maa maa... I don't plan to go around telling people your goal but, Impale Down, why are you people going there? Most pirates want to stay as far away from that place as possible." Said Shakky.

"We are going to save Ace!!" Scream Luffy while he was ransacking the fridge.

"Second in command of Whitebeard pirates? I did remember hearing that he was caught, but why is he so important to you, to go in such a place?" Asked her again.

"Because he's my brother!" Declared Luffy.

"Brother!?" Reacted most of the people inside the room.

"But why are you going there to save him? He should not have any connection with you?" Asked Shakky the Blood Moons.

"We are not, our goal there is to recruit some able hands for us to train and find some people worthy for us to recruit for our main crew as we are currently expanding our pirate group scale." Said Lucci as he took a sip of wine.

"Making use of the timing when Impale Down is most vulnerable, as expected from a former CP agent." Replied her.

"I'm very thankful, especially since it's coming from someone who used to be as famous as you, miss Shakky! Also, the reason we are here is to have you deliver two messages for me!" Said Lucci in return.

"Well, it depends on who you want the message to be delivered, but I warn you my fee is quite high." Replied Shakky.

"Sure, but I'm very certain you will deliver them even without me paying, that being said... the first message I want you to deliver is for your husband, tell him that his former captain son is to be executed at the end of this week at Marineford as for ...." As Lucci was getting ready to state his second message, a plate dropped from the hand of Shakky the shock was also shared by all the people here, the only one unfazed, but he also was surprised about the fact that Lucci knows.

"One Piece's son!!!????" The question resounded in the small bar.

But Lucci ignore them as he kept drinking his wine, waiting for the effects of the truth bomb he dropped to pass, which left Luffy to having to clarify the whole situation. The discussion has gone back and forth as Shakky also revealed who her husband is and why he would care about this information.

As Lucci finished his wine, their conversation has finally died down, and he took the chance to state his second message.

"And, for my second message, I would like you to inform the empress of Kuja that I have a proposal for her so after the war I'll come to look for her, all she has to do is to listen and whatever she agrees or not her payment will me me getting rid of her Gorgon curse from her back." Said Lucci calmly.

"I'm not even surprised that you know about that too, you are quite a scary man when it comes to information boy!" Retorted Shakky after he casually revealed another private information.

"I try my best." Said Lucci with sarcasm in his voice.

"That would be all for now, as for our goal we'll depart in two days be sure to not make troubles on this island, as you know there are currently quite a lot of dangerous people here as you know and also three Celestial Dragons." Reminded Lucci.

They already know about the Celestial Dragons too, even having the displeasure of meeting one on their way to meet Lucci and the others could barely stop Luffy from punching him.

With that being said, Lucci retreated back to his ship with his crew, leaving them behind, realizing only after some time that they have not paid the bill which lead to Shakky kicking Luffy till Nami found the power in herself to separate from her hard stolen berries as she paid the bill she did not forget to curse Lucci for their shamelessness.

Over the next two days, Sabaody Archipelago was anything but quiet as apparently Kid Pirates and Straw Hats somehow got into a fight which attracted the attention of the other Supernovas to come and watch them fight, which led to even more chaos as conflict started even between those who watched to the point even marines started to watch from the side hoping to pull a fast one and capture some of them, but their fights stopped as Lucci descended from the sky in his hybrid from using one of his favorite combination for intimidating others using the of powers namely Blood Paralysis and Conqueror Haki.

"What are you doing, Straw Hat, did you forget the plan?" Asked Lucci.

"I... MMM... MY BAD!" Said Luffy

"And who do you think you are to order us around?" Replied Kid in anger.

"Eustass ``Captain`` Kid, I heard about you being a mad man but did not take you for being an idiot if you make any more chaos on the island an Admiral would be deployed and even if you don't care about that some of us do!" Said Lucci.

"Tsk... Fine whatever but if you want us to stop you have to tell me about the power you used earlier on us and Straw Hat wait for me in the New World I'm going to beat you up!" Said Kid.

"That power, huh? Ok, I'm going to explain the basics about it, be sure to listen as I'll not repeat myself!"

"That is the power of Haki the power who decides who's sits on top in the New World, don't tell me you are planing to go there without even knowing about it? Without haki in New World, you all can be defeated by a simple cadre of any pirate emperor crew who mastered at least two of them." Explained Lucci.

All the Supernovas and their crews listen very carefully, as this information seems to be very valuable. 

"How can I use haki?" Asked Kid very intrigued about its concept, especially when he heard that he has to have it if he wants to be on top in New World.

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